All Review articles – Page 116
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The ones that got away
An exhibition of unbuilt projects is a reminder of the need for ideas and imagination, writes Andrew Guest
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ReviewPlaster scenes
Graham Seaton's plaster casts of found objects resemble cityscapes until you look closely
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ReviewCutting it
Printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall takes inspiration from architectural landmarks for his meticulous linocuts, on show in a new exhibition at London's Clapham Art Gallery. Catherall works from his own photographs, often altering angles and details as he draws before producing linocuts with paints he mixes himself. The results are ...
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ReviewArchitecture's Mappa Mundi
Pamela Buxton finds plenty to peruse in an ambitious atlas of buildings around the world
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Trick of the light
Luis Barragan’s El Bebedero Fountain, Las Arboledas, Mexico City, 1960s, photographed by Armando Salas Portugal, one of Mexico’s most sensitive portrayers of architecture and landscape. Barragan used photography not just as images for publication but as part of his creative process, collaborating with Salas Portugal from 1944 to 1988. The ...
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ReviewUnswayed by the flock
Julian Lewis enjoys a monograph on landscaping polymath Peter Shepheard.
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ReviewBetter than nature
Martha Schwartz's landscape architecture is creative, colourful and unexpected, often in the face of client indifference. Ellie Duffy heard her talk at the RIBA
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ReviewThe Møllers' tale
A new RIBA exhibition provides a chance to learn about the Danish practice behind the Natural History Museum's planned Darwin Centre, writes Catherine Croft
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ReviewPlenty of innovation if you look for it
Helen Parton finds the best of the Milan Furniture Fair is at its satellite events
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ReviewGet out of the city
Mark Cousins reports on a show that urges people to explore the Scottish countryside
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ReviewTurning the tables
Artist Michael Samuels will illuminate the AA with frenetic furniture and fantasy islands.
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ReviewA taste of Scotland
An annual Scottish showcase of the arts provides a weak reflection of the country’s architects.
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ReviewReligious revival
The full splendour of German synagogue architecture is revealed in a new book that uses cad to reconstruct 18 synagogues destroyed during the Third Reich. Synagogues in Germany – A Virtual Recon-struction (Birkhauser, HB, 159pp, £26), originated in a student project to computer-reconstruct three Frankfurt synagogues attacked in the 1938 ...
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ReviewRadar: Quinlan Terry
BooksI'm reading books on the Early Church. Orthodoxies and heresies in the Early Church is a fascinating subject. It has parallels with classical architecture, when something that is very good — beauty, light — is over-emphasised and so has errors. The interesting thing about heresy and orthodoxy is ...
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ReviewGolden years
Erno Goldfinger's life alone makes for fascinating reading, says one-time employee John Winter
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ReviewPostcards from the edge
The work of East German architectural photographer Erasmus Schroeter records the built legacy of totalitarianism.
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ReviewThe double life of Dan
Dan Brady combines working for his part III with being one of Charles Saatchi's young protégés, creating artworks inspired by Kafka and Le Corbusier.
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The new showmen
Pamela Buxton reports on the launch of two UK architecture festivals this summer
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Domestic goddess
A new book on Charlotte Perriand gives a complex picture of a designer whose work has too often been overshadowed by her association with Le Corbusier.
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ReviewAnd now for something completely different...
Twenty years after Archigram closed its office, an exhibition of its work finally reaches the Design Museum. Kester Rattenbury previews the show, and finds the surviving members still very active